An anti-abortion group says it's dropping its effort to ask voters whether to ban an abortion procedure.
The petition would have banned dilation and evacuation, or "D&E" abortions.
They're the most commonly used abortions in the second trimester.
Right to Life of Michigan needed some 340-thousand valid signatures to get the issue on the ballot, but the Bureau of Elections said too many signatures were duplicates or had other problems.
Lori Carpentier is with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan.
"Right to Life of Michigan would have bypassed the regular desire of the people of Michigan and inserted themselves in between physicians and patients to do what would have been right and an entirely legal procedure," says Carpentier .
Right to Life of Michigan says it's shifting its focus to the 2020 elections.
